The Museum of Subjective Science

The Museum of Subjective Science is a collection of images, drawings, collages, animations, installations and short stories with a common research topic: my own self-perception and its development.

In my work I keep assuming different ‘roles’: sometimes I am a woman, sometimes a Jewess, an Israeli or a migrant. I can be a daughter, a granddaughter or a lover. By looking at myself from different perspectives, and by studying my relationships with my relatives, my parents or my ancestors, I keep telling the same story but from different angles, highlighting different aspects of my identity and my background.

The title of the project ‘Subjective Science’, contains an internal contradiction which I manipulate quite deliberately. It is impossible to be researcher and guinea pig at the same time. Nevertheless, that is my objective. By means of irony I create distance from myself and in doing so manage to reach a degree of objectivity. Of course my images, drawings, scenes, animations or short stories are in actual fact based on extensive observations, concrete life experiences, autobiographical facts and self-analysis.

However, because I know that it is impossible to ever find the right answer or ‘the truth’, I keep producing new work and developing working methods. Indeed, questions without definitive answers create spaces with their own fantasy, and nonconformist theories can be given shape. For this I make use of knowledge on the subjects of psychology, (neuro)biology, Chinese acupuncture or yoga, interconnecting these in an associative way.